# Engineering Manager

**Company:** [Weekday AI](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/pxG9rDgnvZm2c86JUchT1j.md)
**Location:** Remote
**Workplace:** remote
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** Weekday's Client via platform

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## Description

**This role is for one of the Weekday's clients**

**Salary range: Rs 15000000 - Rs 30000000 (ie INR 150-300 LPA)  
  
**Min Experience: 8 years

Location: United States

JobType: full-time  
  
We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the design and delivery of large-scale backend and distributed systems. This role combines deep technical expertise with people leadership, ensuring high-performance architecture, strong engineering standards, and successful execution of complex, real-time data platforms.

The ideal candidate will bring strong hands-on experience in distributed systems while mentoring engineers, driving technical direction, and delivering scalable, production-grade solutions.

## Requirements

### **Core Requirements**

-   8+ years of experience building backend or distributed systems
-   Strong hands-on experience with Apache Flink
-   Advanced programming expertise in Java
-   Working experience with Rust in production environments
-   Deep understanding of distributed systems, streaming architectures, and data pipelines
-   Proven experience building high-throughput, low-latency systems
-   Strong fundamentals in system design, concurrency, scalability, and performance optimization

### **Preferred Qualifications**

-   Prior experience in cybersecurity, threat detection, observability, or data security domains
-   Experience processing high-volume event streams such as logs, telemetry, or network data
-   Familiarity with Kafka, stateful stream processing, and real-time analytics
-   Experience working in high-growth or early-stage startup environments
-   Demonstrated track record of taking products from concept (0 → 1) to scale, or significantly optimizing existing systems

### **Key Leadership Expectations**

-   Lead and mentor engineering teams while maintaining technical depth
-   Drive architectural decisions and establish engineering best practices
-   Ensure scalability, reliability, and performance across distributed systems
-   Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement
-   Collaborate cross-functionally to align technical solutions with business objectives

### **Core Skills**

-   Java
-   Apache Flink
-   Rust
-   Distributed Systems Architecture
-   Streaming Data Platforms